Category Archives: Crime News
Cop Watch: Taser Manufacturer Issues New Safety Warnings and Some Cops are Listening (But Not Enough)
Earlier this month, without much fanfare, the company that makes Tasers (those electric stun guns) changed the wording in its training manuals. Now, the company is warning users of its product NOT to aim for the chest. Why not? People can be severely injured or killed when those 50,000 volts hit near their vital organs,…
DA Watch: Texas Death Row Inmate Toney Freed Last Night and May Not Face Re-Trial
Michael Toney walked out of jail a free man last week after being on Texas’ Death Row for a decade. Maybe you remember the case of Michael Toney…. Michael Toney Was Convicted for the Bombing Murder of 3 People – Nine Years Later, the DA Admits to Hiding Exculpatory Evidence Last October, we posted about how…
Crime News: Lots of things become crimes in Texas starting tomorrow
Starting tomorrow, September 1, 2009, things will change for all of us Texans. Lots of laws go into effect that impact our daily lives, and DPS has given all the details in an online pdf. Here are some of the biggies: 1. Kids under 8 yrs. old that are shorter than 4’9” must be secured in a…
Crime News: Scientific Study Reveals that DNA Evidence Can Be Faked
Israel has just set the world to spinning — again. This time, it’s due to a new study released by scientists in Tel Aviv, where they confirm that DNA evidence can be fabricated. Messed with. Altered. Just what exactly can be done here in faking DNA? How serious and wide-spread the repercussions are to this news…
Crime News: Texas Police Get More Power to Control You
Effective this September 1st, about six weeks from now, two laws are going into effect that could have a big impact on your freedom. They give lots of power to Texas law enforcement in their dealings with the public — and if you’ve been following this blog and the antics of Texas cops these days,…
Crime News: Paris TX Protests and the Pending Death Penalty for Hate Crime Law
Perhaps you’ve seen some of the news reports from Paris, Texas, about simultaneous demonstrations planned by the New Black Panther Party and the Ku Klux Klan after murder charges were dropped by the authorities against the two white men accused of killing a black man by running him over by a truck and then dragging…
Cop Watch: Harlingen Cop Fatally Shoots Man in the Back, Juan Angel Guerra On the Case
Down Harlingen way, it was cold back in January so Diego Rivas-Soto started a fire under the Highway 77 overpass to keep warm. Rivas-Soto was a Mexican national, with family living in Durango. He was here, looking for work. Drawn by the fire, the police showed up. Rivas-Soto was obviously frightened, and according to the…
Crime News: 20th Dallas County DNA Exoneration Walks Free Today
Today, Jerry Lee Evans will walk out of a Dallas courtroom a free man, at the age of 47, after spending 23 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. What Happened to Put The Wrong Man Behind Bars This Time? Back in 1986, an 18-year-old woman in her first year at SMU…
Crime News: In the Real World, You Cannot Trust the Lab Results of CSI
You know you’ve watched more CSI episodes than you should. There’s CSI in Vegas, and CSI in Miami, and CSI in New York. And they’re all intertwined with the police department (think Horatio drawing his gun in almost every episode) – and on the screen, it’s all good. The bad guys get caught. Gil and…
Cop Watch: Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez Has Been Sued
There’s a new Sheriff in town, but does she hold a grudge? Mebbe. Four Dallas County Sheriff’s Deputies have sued their boss, Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, along with the Executive Chief Deputy Jesse Flores, alleging that the Sheriff transferred them to yucky jobs after she got elected because they had supported her opponent in…
